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Fearing just that, some Allied strategists quickly charged that Mintoff's maneuvers sounded like the start of a new Cuba. To other observers, however, it looked as if his main goal were simply to extract more money from Britain. Under an agreement signed in 1964, Britain has been paying a modest ?5,000,000 (now $12 million) annually for its right to station forces on the island. Moreover, other NATO nations used Malta's harbor and facilities without paying the Maltese anything-even though Malta is not a NATO member and has no treaty or agreement with...
...more than 400 years, some of the world's best opium poppies have been grown in Turkey. The Turks use the seed for cooking oil and food seasoning, the stalk for fuel and animal fodder. From the pod they extract raw opium for the making of medicinal morphine. Currently, the poppy provides the main source of income for 80,000 farmers and earns Turkey about $5,000,000 per year in foreign exchange...
...cannot be Batman to every Robin in the world. Many's the time in an eight hour day that these words have sprung to my lips only to be choked down and replaced by classified rates, the whereabouts of ad copy, a plea to extract the fifteen cents for a paper...
...typewriterlike office terminal. Now computers are being put to even greater use by physicians seeking to plan treatment programs for their patients. Doctors at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover, N.H., have programmed their Honeywell computer to sort through some 20,000 different radiation-treatment plans and extract the ten most suitable for a particular tumor patient...
...issue of free speech has become increasingly confused at Harvard in the last few weeks. I would like to extract what seem to me to be three clear principles...